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The extreme cold that has struck the Eastern US shows no sign of abating, as arctic winds carry snow and lower temperatures even to usually moderate parts of the country. Atlanta, for example, suffered a glazing of ice that contributed to a 30-car pileup near Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. In Ohio, which has already seen significant snow, a tractor-trailer spun out on Interstate 70, hitting a bus carrying disabled adults and causing four deaths and six injuries.

Meteorologists warned that the snow and cold would continue through the weekend: "There is going to be a significant storm next week, no question about that; the uncertainty lies in tracking its movement," a Boston meteorologist told MSNBC. (Read more snow stories.)

A flock of wild turkeys cluster together in a snow-covered field in Bainbridge Twp., Ohio on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

This NOAA satellite image taken today at 12:45pm shows clouds shrouding the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest, and Northeast. The cold that has plagued the East will spread eastward through the weekend. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

has any one who actually believes in global warming taken into consideration that we've only been monitoring temperatures for a short period of time on the evolutionary scale and that the heat waves a few years ago may have been cause by oh i don't know ..solar flares.

DontLikeYou___

Jan 9, 2010 12:39 PM CST

@DJM420. Are you saying global warming has nothing to do with the weather? Doesn't global warming mean the globe is, er, warming?